A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.